--- title: Kid at the zoo: "Ostriches bury their heads, bats are blind, and owl… — Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★ · tree and pragmatics description: Kid at the zoo: "Ostriches bury their heads, bats are blind, and owls can look straight behind them!" How many of the three are true? 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How many of the three are true? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Kid, bats, owls, many · **What happens:** bury, be, look · **To what, where:** heads This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 36 «Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★» of the myths course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/myths/36-olympiad-which-claim-is-true/#t10). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Kid at the zoo: "Ostriches bury their heads, bats are blind, and owls can look straight behind them!" ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:36-olympiad-which-claim-is-true:t10:1 # text = Kid at the zoo: "Ostriches bury their heads, bats are blind, and owls can look straight behind them!" 1 Kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 zoo zoo NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 Ostriches ostrich NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 bury bury VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 bats bat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 20 straight straight ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 behind behind ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ! ! PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bury** *in a quote* | present | Kid at the zoo | Ostriches's heads | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | bats | | | | | blind *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **look** *in a quote* | can | owls | | | | | behind Ostriches *= ostrich* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind they=Theme | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. *Sentence 2:* How many of the three are true? ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:36-olympiad-which-claim-is-true:t10:2 # text = How many of the three are true? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nsubj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | many | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Two of them ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:36-olympiad-which-claim-is-true:t10:o1:1 # text = Two of them 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} One: owls can look behind them ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:36-olympiad-which-claim-is-true:t10:o2:1 # text = One: owls can look behind them 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 3 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 6 behind behind ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | can | owls | | | | | behind them *= they* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind they=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} None of them at all ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:36-olympiad-which-claim-is-true:t10:o3:1 # text = None of them at all 1 None none PRON NN PronType=Neg 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 nmod _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} All three of them ```conllu # sent_id = question:myths:36-olympiad-which-claim-is-true:t10:o4:1 # text = All three of them 1 All all DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. 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